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This Week: Help Plan the Future of Surface Transit in NYC
DOT is working on a citywide plan to improve streets for transit, including new bus lanes and better biking and walking access to stops and stations. This week DOT will host workshops in Queens and the Bronx to hear from New Yorkers about how their transit system could be better.
February 13, 2017
This Week: Hear From the Candidates for Vacant Harlem Council Seat
In a district where the overwhelming majority of residents don't own cars, Inez Dickens opposed bus improvements for 125th Street and prioritized high-speed driving over traffic-calming on Morningside Avenue. Will her successor be better?
February 6, 2017
This Week: Improving Access to the Sunset Park Waterfront
On Thursday DOT and UPROSE will host a workshop on the Sunset Park Upland Connectors project, which aims to improve walking and biking access between the neighborhood’s residential core and waterfront businesses and public spaces, including the Brooklyn Waterfront Greenway.
January 30, 2017
This Week: Rally for a 14th Street PeopleWay
Transportation Alternatives is organizing a rally for the 14th Street PeopleWay at Union Square on Thursday evening. The PeopleWay concept calls for dedicating 14th Street exclusively to transit, walking, and biking.
January 23, 2017
This Week: Tell DOT to Make the Grand Concourse a Complete Street
On Thursday you can weigh in how to make the Grand Concourse safer for all street users at a DOT workshop. The same day at Brooklyn CB 2, DOT will present several safety projects, including the Amity Street Wiggle.
January 17, 2017
This Week: Get Involved in the Next Round of Queens Blvd Safety Upgrades
It’s important to keep advocating for safe bikeways where people can ride outside the door zone on Queens Boulevard in Rego Park and Forest Hills, because allocating that street space to biking will involve more parking removal than previous sections of the project.
January 9, 2017
No, Giant Shared Ubers Aren’t About to Solve City Traffic Problems
MIT researchers got a ton of press for a mathematical model that showed sharing for-hire vehicles could replace 85 percent of New York City's taxi fleet. But their conclusions were built on shaky assumptions, says economist Joe Cortright.
January 6, 2017
DOT’s Atlantic Ave Plan Doesn’t Do Enough to Protect New Yorkers
The de Blasio administration and NYC DOT are not doing enough to protect people from life-threatening conditions on Atlantic Avenue, Transportation Alternatives says in a new report. The design changes currently on the table are too meager and don't cover sufficient territory to tame the 10-mile long street.
December 19, 2016
Larry Hogan’s “BaltimoreLink” Fails to Deliver for Transit Riders
After Maryland Governor Larry Hogan unilaterally killed plans for Baltimore's 14-mile Red Line light rail, he said he would make it up to the city with a set of bus improvements called BaltimoreLink. But a new analysis finds Hogan's package won't do much at all for Baltimore transit riders.
December 16, 2016
Portland Will Switch From Counting Vehicle Trips to Counting People Trips
All sorts of biases toward cars and driving are baked into traffic engineering conventions. In a promising development, Portland is taking steps to rethink these rules to promote walkable development.
December 15, 2016
